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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1967
Number 501
Won’t Run In ’68,
Connally Says
By LEE JONES
AUSTIN OP) — Gov. John Con
nally, one of President Johnson’s
oldest friends and staunchest sup
porters, said today he has decided
not to seek an unprecedented
fourth term.
Connally, secretary of the Navy
under President John F. Kennedy,
said he had given months of
thought before reaching the de
cision.
The decision throws the door
open to a free for all governor’s
race and could give Republicans
their best chance in years to cap
ture the governorship.
Connally’s withdrawal also de
prives the President of an ab
solutely sure and firm grasp over
the state’s political machinery in
the crucial 1968 election year.
Two potential candidates for
Connally’s job, Sen. Ralph Yar
borough, D-Tex., and former State
Atty, Gen. Waggoner Carr, were
on their way to Austin. It was
not known whether they planned
any announcement.
“I have reluctantly concluded
that after the drain of what will
have been eight years of vigor
ous public service, I no longer
can be assured in my own mind
that I could bring to the office
for another two years the enthu
siasm, the resilience, the patience
that my conscience would demand,
and the state would deserve,”
Connally said.
The eight years of service in
cludes more than a year as Ken
nedy’s secretary of the Navy. The
governor was wounded in the vol
ley of rifle shots that killed Ken
nedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Only Lt. Gov. Preston Smith
has announced for governor so
far.
Yarborough and Connally have
feuded bitterly for years, and
their verbal warfare heated up
over the past several months. The
two men are the leaders of the
Texas Democratic party’s warring
liberal and conservative factions.
Hall Elected
GRE Member
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, dean of the
Graduate College, has been elect
ed a member and vice chairman
of the national Graduate Record
Examination board.
Dr. John L. Landgraf of Prince
ton, board chairman, said Dean
Hall’s four-year appointment is
effective Jan 1, 1968.
The GREB determines policies
for examinations administered to
students seeking admission to
graduate schools.
As 1968 GREB vice chairman,
Dean Hall also will serve on the
board’s executive committee, a-
long with Dr. Landgraf, Dr. W.
Donald Cook of Cornell and Dr.
H. Frederic Bohnenblust of Calif
ornia Institute of Technology.
Dean Hall said an executive
committee meeting is planned for
January in preparation for a full
board meeting at New Orleans
Feb. 9-10.
The GREB is an affiliate of
the Association of Graduate
Schools and the Educational Test
ing Service.
Dean Hall, who has been asso
ciated with A&M since 1949, was
named graduate dean in 1960. He
also serves as academic vice presi
dent.
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
Grad College
Schedules Talk
On Resources
Dr. Marion Clawson, director
of land use and management
studies for Resources for the
Future Inc., Washington, D. C.,
will give a Graduate College
lecture Wednesday at Texas
A&M.
His talk, "America’s Stake in
Development of Land and Water
Resources,” is set for 3:15 p.m.
in the Memorial Ctudent Center
Ballroom, announced Graduate
Dean Wayne C. Hall.
Dr. Hall noted Dr. Clawson is
vitally interested in public policy
issues involving allocation and
development of outdoor resources
for public recreation.
The speaker, a native of Elko,
Nev., has B.S. and M.S. degrees
from the University of Nevada
and a Ph.D. from Harvard. After
service as an agricultural econo
mist for the Departments of
Agriculture and Interior, Claw
son was director of the Bureau
of Land Management from 1948
to 1953.
Clawson is to speak at 10 a.m.
Tuesday in rooms 113-114 of the
Herman Heep Building during
an interdisciplinary colloquium
sponsored by the School of Nat
ural Biosciences.
At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, he will
speak in the Memorial Student
Center Assembly Room during
an open meeting sponsored by
the Parks and Recreation Club.
An open seminar featuring Dr.
Clawson is slated for 10 a.m.
Thursday in room 113 of the
Herman Heep Building. Sponsor
for the seminar is the Recreation
and Parks Department.
Saturn, Surveyor Flights
Aid Moon-Landing Hopes
Officials Say U. S.
Two Steps Closer
Official Forecast:
‘’Bonfire Weather’
Muddy boots will line dormi
tory halls at Texas A&M over
the weekend, the results of
slushy conditions forecast for
the start of bonfire work.
Students will be in the woods
early Saturday and Sunday
mornings, cutting timber for
the giant bonfire to be ignited
November 22.
Moisture is in the weekend
weather forecast, issued by the
weather station in A&M’s Mete
orology Department.
Station manager Jim Light-
foot said present rainy condi
tions will probably continue
through the weekend.
The predicition includes
cloudy skies and a few light
rainshowers Saturday becom
ing heavier Sunday. Daytime
high temperatures will be in
the high 60’s, with the night
low in the low 60’s, Lightfoot
forecast.
SCHOLARSHIP GIVEN
Scholastically-perfect Bryan T. Preas (center) receives his
second Western Electric Co. scholarship. Making the pre
sentation are Harry Wright of Houston, scholarship repre
sentative, and Bert Richardson, college relations, Lee’s
Summit, Mo. Preas, electrical engineering senior from
Cooper, has maintained a 3.00 grade point ratio through
A&M.
ELMENDORF ON THE MOVE
Fish safety Dave Elmendorf eludes a Tech Picador tackier and continues downfield for a
23-yard punt return in the first quarter of the A&M-Tech freshman game. Tech won,
21-20. See story, page 4. (Photo by Mike Wright)
All-Guns,
Is ‘Bunk,’
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK CP) — President
Johnson made a surprise flying
visit here Thursday night and
said it is “bunk” to believe that
progress in Vietnam cannot go
hand in hand with progress at
home.
Without advance announce
ment by the White House, John
son flew to New York to address
a Jewish Labor committee dinner.
HE DECLARED, in his pre
pared text, that domestic social
reform is not easy.
“On the one hand,” he said,
“is the old coalition of stand
patters and nay-sayers.
“They never wanted to do any
thing, but this year they say they
can’t do it because of Vietnam.
“That is bunk. They were
against progress before Vietnam.
They are against progress now.
And they’ll be against progress
when the war in Vietnam is a dim
memory.”
At the other end of the politi
cal spectrum, the President de
clared, there are those who say
that America was built rotten and
should be torn apart.
“I SAY they’re both wrong,”
Johnson declared at the dinner of
the National Trade Union Council
for Human Rights of the Jewish
Labor Committee, convened to
honor AFL-CIO President George
Meany.
“I say we can meet our com
mitments at home and abroad—
and I believe we will.”
Talking directly about the Viet
nam war, Johnson said the U. S.
commitment to South Vietnam is
being tested.
“And along with it,” he said,
“America itself is being tested on
the anvil of war.”
DEFENDING his Vietnamese
policies, the chief executive said:
“If we fail, we may forfeit our
hope for world stability. We may
risk a far more terrible war in
the future because we didn’t see
this one through.”
Johnson also brought up the
subject of the Middle East, say
ing the same kind of issues are
at stake there.
The upshot of his message was
that the United States “must help
make it possible for men to live
together in dignity and mutual
respect,” and to avoid Arab-
Israeli warfare.
No-Butter
Johnson
Concept
Declares
“What we want In that trou
bled region, we want in all the
world,” Johnson continued. “I
believe that Americans can de
fend these precious principals
abroad without relaxing our ef
forts at home.”
JOHNSON’S decision to fly
here became known less than two
hours before his 7:55 p.m. arrival
at Kennedy Airport. Aboard the
presidential jetliner, he changed
into dinner jacket and black tie.
However, there was time for
about 30 antiwar demonstrators
to assemble on a corner across
from the hotel on Seventh Ave
nue. As Johnson’s motorcade
passed them, they shouted:
“Johnson, murderer! Johnson,
murderer!” It seemed doubtful
the President heard them above
the roar of his motorcycle escort.
Signs identified the demonstra
tors as members of the “Youth
Against War and Fascism.”
A&M’s ‘Summer At Sea’ Trip
Open To High School Seniors
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Spring high school graduates
eager for a visit to Europe and a
head-start on college work are
prime candidates for Texas
A&M’s fourth annual “Summer
School at Sea.”
The unique program, jointly
sponsored by A&M’s College of
Liberal Arts and Texas Maritime
Academy, is scheduled June 12-
Aug. 18.
Following a three-day orienta
tion session at Galveston, “Sum
mer School at Sea” participants
will sail for Europe June 15
aboard the “Texas Clipper,” a
15,000-ton oceanliner converted to
a floating classroom.
European ports of call are Oslo,
Norway; Rotterdam, Nether
lands; Lisbon, Portugal, and Bar
celona, Spain. The “Clipper” will
stop at New York enroute and
return via the Canary Islands and
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
While visiting foreign ports
and getting a 13,000-mile taste of
the sea, qualified male high
school graduates — and college
freshmen — can earn six hours
of academic credit in English, his
tory or mathematics.
Credit for the courses may be
applied to a standard degree
from Texas A&M or another col
lege or university. It also can
be applied to a TMA course of
study leading to a Bachelor of
Science degree in marine engi
neering or marine transportation.
In addition to the academic
aspects, the students, officially
designated TMA cadets, will par
ticipate in various activities as
sociated with life aboard ship.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Outer, since 1919.
—Adv.
Fees and expenses, including
tuition and room and board, total
$475 for Texas residents and $575
for non-residents.
Additional information may be
obtained by contacting the Texas
Maritime Academy, Texas A&M
University, College Station,
Texas.
By The Associated Press
Giant rocket Saturn 5 boosted
an unmanned Apollo spacecraft
11,234 miles into space Thursday
and a few hours later camera
carrying Surveyor 6 landed gently
on the moon, putting America
two steps closer to a mannel land
ing there.
The twin successes, especially
the perfect performance of
mighty Saturn 5, led scientists at
Cape Kennedy, Fla., to predict
U. S. astronauts might still reach
the moon in 1969.
THE 36-STORY-TALL Saturn,
performing like a veteran in its
maiden flight, shot off from Cape
Kennedy with what officials
called “incredible” precision. The
Apollo, after 8M>-hours in space,
plummeted into the Pacific with
in sight of its prime recovery
ship.
A few hours later, three-legged
Surveyor 6 braked itself to a
touch-down on the moon in a
rugged area near the center of
the lunar disk. Within the hour
it began televising pictures back
to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Pasadena, Calif.
Surveyor’s mission is to photo
graph potential astronaut landing
sites.
SATURN 5’S flight proved the
huge rocket can accomplish what
it is being developed to do —
propel astronauts to the moon and
become the “ultimate” rocket for
U. S. exploration of space for at
least the next two decades.
Flight controllers at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory said Sur
veyor 6 performed flawlessly
through its action-packed three-
minute landing sequence — firing
braking rockets with split-second
precision to brake its 6,000 miles
per hour speed to 3 miles an
hour at a point 13 feet above the
surface.
IT DROPPED free the rest of
the way, landing at 10 m.p.h.
The touchdown was only three
miles from an aiming point set
during a midflight steering ma
neuver Tuesday and five miles
from whatever remains of Sur
veyor 4, which went silent seconds
before landing. Scientists said
any object more than a mile away
would be hidden from Survey 6’s
camera by curvature of the lunar
surface.
There were cheers and applause
from engineers at the flight con
trol center when a signal was re
ceived from the spacecraft after
the tricky landing sequence was
completed, indicating it still was
functioning.
“All signals are holding
steady,” said Dr. A1 Hibbs, space
scientist at the laboratory. “Sur
veyor 6 seems to be in perfect
shape. The straight gauges on
its legs indicate it survived the
landing without difficulty.”
SCONA Gets
68 Applicants
For Delegates
Sixty-eight students have ap
plied to be official Texas A&M
delegates to the 13th Student
Conference on National Affairs
Dec. 6-9 at A&M.
From that number, 24 delegates
will be announced Monday, re
vealed Pat H. Rhement, SCONA
chairman. He said 16 A&M dele
gates will be residents of the
United States, with eight to be
international students studying at
A&M.
A&M delegates will join stu
dent delegates from over the
nation, Canada and Mexico in
roundtable discussions of the
conference theme: “The Price of
Peace in Southeast Asia.”
Prospective delegates are being
interviewed this week by three-
man selection teams. Applicants
are required to have 1.5 or better
grade point ratios and be juniors,
seniors or gradaute students.
One selection team is comprised
of Dr. W. F. Krueger, professor
of poultry science; Dr. William
P. Kuvlesky, assistant professor
of agricultural economics and
sociology, and David Gay, execu
tive vice president of the Memo
rial Student Center Council and
Directorate.
The other selection team in
cludes Edwin H. Cooper, director
of civilian student activities;
Capt. Homer J. Gibbs, assistant
professor of military science, and
Rehmet.
Ag Wives Council
To Meet Monday
The Aggie Wives Council will
hold its monthly meeting Mon
day evening at 7:30 in the South
Solarium of the YMCA.
Representatives and presidents
of each wives club are urged to
attend the meeting to present
their club’s suggestion for a
Christmas Project.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
BI-PARTISAN CONGRATULATIONS IN BOSTON
Kevin White, center, winning cadidate for mayor of Boston, receives a pat on the chest
from Massachusetts Republican Gov. John A. Volpe, left, and from Sen. Edward M. Ken
nedy, D-Mass., after votes were tabulated. White, currently secretary of state, defeated
Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, school committeeman, by more than 11,000 votes. (AP Wirephoto)